​Hope season tickets on sale, schedules setHOPE – Season tickets for the 2016-2017 Hope Bobcat varsity football season have gone on sale at Hope High School.Hope Public Schools Co-Activities Director Susan Powers said season tickets are on sale and available only in the HHS main office.“Season tickets for individual box seats are $100 and an entire box is $400,” Powers said.Reserved season tickets for home games are $25 each for seats in the home stands in front of the press box at Hammons Stadium, she said.General admission seating on either side of the “reserved seating” section is $5 per seat, and those seats are available at the gate on game night, she said.The HHS Bobcat varsity gets a warm-up scrimmage against Texarkana at Hammons Stadium on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m., according to Head Bobcat Football Coach/Co-Activities Director Jay Turley.The home opener will be the traditional Hope-Nashville rivalry on Sept. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Hammons Stadium, according to the schedule released by Turley.Homecoming will be observed Sept. 30 at Hammons Stadium as the Bobcats take on Hot Springs.Yerger Middle School seventh-grade football begins Sept. 12 at Hammons Stadium against Nashville at 5:30 p.m. The seventh grade squad will play a four-game season with remaining games Sept. 19 at home against Mufreesboro; Sept. 26 at Nashville; and Oct. 3 at Magnolia. All seventh grade games begin at 5:30 p.m.HHS eighth and ninth grade junior varsity play begins Aug. 23 at home with a scrimmage against Texarkana at 5:30 p.m.The eighth and ninth grade squads will play a nine-game season beginning with Ashdown at home on Sept. 1, and including Malvern, Nashville, Hot Springs, Lakeside, Camden, Magnolia, Texarkana and concluding at DeQueen on Nov. 1. An “open date” has been scheduled for Sept. 24. All eighth/ninth grade games will begin at 5:30 p.m.